Title At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others / Sarah Bakewell.

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New York : Other Press, [2016]

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Description	439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-420) and index.
Contents	Sir, what a horror, existentialism! -- To the things themselves -- The magician from Messkirch -- The they, the call -- To crunch flowering almonds -- I don't want to eat my manuscripts -- Occupation, liberation -- Devastation -- Life studies -- The dancing philosopher -- Croisés comme ça -- The eyes of the least favoured -- Having once tasted phenomenology -- The imponderable bloom.
Summary	Paris, 1933. Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse-- and ignite a movement, creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism: Existentialism. Interweaving biography and philosophy, Bakewell provides an investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.
	From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!" It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism. Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists' story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters--fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships--and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.--Publisher information.
Subject	Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
	Beauvoir, Simone de (Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand), 1908-1986.
	Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
	Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
	Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969.
	Husserl, Edmund (Edmund G.), 1859-1938.
	Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
	Existentialism.
	Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
	Philosophy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
	Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.
	PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
	Existentialism. (OCoLC)fst00918204
	Philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01060746
	Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
	Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	Existentiefilosofie. (NL-LeOCL)078502144
	Existentialism.
	Filosofi -- historia.
	Filosofer -- historia.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
	1900-talet
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Online version: Bakewell, Sarah, author. At the existentialist café New York : Other Press, 2016 9781590514894 (DLC) 2016000382
ISBN	9781590514887 (hardback)
	1590514882 (hardback)
	9781590514894
Standard No.	99966326839

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